Crossword-Solution: ADELLE 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

This child she had named Adelle, thus proving the persistence of her fancy even in her forlornest hours.

But before we concern ourselves in the plot of these greedy exploiters, it would be well to go back for a time to the dingy Church Street house and the pale little Adelle, who was now in her twelfth year.

She could not give her much thought, and as soon as Adelle was old enough to handle a broom or make beds she had to help in the endless housework.

Adelle was in her thirteenth year and in the last grade of her school when she first began to notice the presence of some strangers in the Church Street house.

Once one of the men, who was putting on his silk hat in the hall and preparing to leave the house, inquired, "Is that the girl?" To which question her uncle and aunt answered briefly, "Yes." The tone of the stranger was exactly as if he had asked, "Is that the bundle of clothes we were talking about?" Something was afoot of momentous importance to Adelle, as we shall shortly discover.